I’m not sure who’s most horrified by Millie’s interest in our chair (nee my chair) – Alfie, Dumpling or myself.

For some reason today I found myself thinking about the James Stewart film Harvey. No idea why.

Following closely on the heels of the Petalmobile Mk1.1, the short lived variation we created yesterday with a revised harness, we now present the Petalmobile Mk2. I had suspected the rear frame should be more upright to reduce the weight…

Poor Petal has been dealt a cruel blow. Having improved so much that she was pretty much her normal self, as Ian wrote in his blog post, she is now paralyzed at the back legs, because she had a swelling…

While Petal appears to have been responding to treatment for leishmania, unfortunately she has other problems to contend with that are related. Her left eyeball has swollen from increased internal pressure and the treatment for that over the last couple…

Well, there isn’t anything to update really, which in itself must be good news. We think she is much more lively and perkier. She seemed to go downhill quickly after we went to the vet the first time, but perhaps…

Here’s our latest project. It’s quite exciting as it’s something I’ve been thinking about for ages and it looks like we’re really in a position to make it happen. It’s a range of ‘things’ that can be modified with knitting,…

is ensuring they eat enough. Because Petal’s kidney’s aren’t working properly, the vet wants to avoid giving her any unnecessary pills to help her anemia, relying instead on food. However, because Petal isn’t a greedy dog it’s quite difficult to…

We’ve just come back from the vet. The swelling around Petals eye had got noticeably worse over the last 24 hours, so I assumed it was a tumor and that it was an indication that she was deteriorating rapidly. We…

…means that life is seldom boring – or relaxing. Queenie is probably at the top of the odd league. She could well be slightly odd anyway, however her deafness and partial site means that she is often a tad strange.…